Supply Chain

Dexcom said Dec. 4 that its continuous glucose monitors are now fully functional again after a service outage caused them to stop sending alerts over the weekend, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings seeking supply chain expertise in the last week:

Viant Medical has signed a consent order with the state of Michigan to end its sterilization operations in Grand Rapids by the end of the year. 

The FDA sent a warning letter Dec. 3 to American Contract Systems, a medical devicemaker and contract sterilizer, sayings its facility in Houston failed to validate its sterilization operations. 

Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital, which entered bankruptcy in June and closed this fall, has begun auctioning off medical supplies and equipment to pay off its creditors, according to thePhiladelphia Business Journal. 

United Parcel Service has named Wes Wheeler president of the company's new Healthcare and Life Sciences unit, effective immediately, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. 

Dexcom's chief technology officer told CNBC the company knew its continuous blood sugar monitors — used by diabetic patients to track their blood sugar levels — weren't sending users alerts right away when the company experienced a service outage over…

Deerfield, Ill.-based devicemaker Baxter International said Dec. 2 it will acquire Sanofi's Seprafilm Adhesion Barrier device and related assets for $350 million. 

Diabetic patients using Dexcom continuous glucose monitors weren't told for hours that their monitors stopped working because of a service outage, according to The New York Times. 

In a world where technological advancement is rapidly progressing across all industries, it may be tempting to envision the supply chain of the future as a completely automated process.